Mouthpiece for musical instruments



F. SORDILLO. MIOUTHPIECE FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. APPLICATIOW FILED JAN.13.1919. RENEWED NOV 11, 1919.

Patented Jan. 13,1920.

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MOUTHPIECE FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

Application filed January 18, 1.919, Serial No. 271,906.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FoR'rUNA'ro SoRmLLo, acitizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county ofSuffolk, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Mouthpieces for Musical Instruments, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

This invention relates to mouth-pieces of the type commonly used withcornets, horns, and the like brass wind instruments, and my immediateobject is to provide a mouthpiece which may be quickly changed for usewith instruments of widely different registers as, for example, from acornet to a slide trombone or baritone without changing the mouth-cup.It is a fact well known to musicians who play a plurality of brassinstruments that when their lip becomes fitted, and accustomed, to acertain type of mouth-piece, it is more or less embarrassing for them toshift to another mouth-piece whenever it becomes necessary for them toplay a different instrument and my present invention seeks to overcomesuch embarrassment by providing a mouth-piece which may be readilyrearranged in its parts, to conform to the requirements of the saidclifferent instrument, without changing the mouth-cup, as I will explainin detail hereinafter and, for the purpose of explaining my presentinvention clearly, I have provided the annexed drawings, in which Figure1 is a side view of a mouth-piece embodying my present improvement, andFig. 2 is a central, longitudinal, sectional, view of the same. Figs. 3,4 and 5 are views of differing types of throats or bores, for use withinstruments of correspondingly different registers of'tones.

Briefly described, my invention consists of a separable mouth-piece inwhich provision is made for inserting a throat or bore which isspecially adapted for use with a cornet, trumpet, alto-horn, baritone,trombone or bass instrument, as the case may be.

Referring to the drawings, the letter a indicates the cup section of themouth-piece and 2) denotes the tubular section of the same.

Ordinarily the cup and tube are made integral, with each other but, inmy present Specification of Letters Patent.

Renewed November 17, 1919. Serial No. 338,531.

improved device, they are separable; the cup being screwed into theflared end of the tube, as at b, Fig. 2. The cup is extended at itsinner end portion to form an annular flange 0 which is threadedinteriorly, as at d, to provide for the insertion of throat members ofdifferent bores, according to the register of the instrument to beplayed.

In the drawings I have illustrated four examples of such throats andthey are denoted by the reference letters 6, f, g and it. Each of thesethroats is adapted to be screwed into the flange 0 and each provides athroat of different capacity which serves as a resonating chamber, thearea of each chamber being proportionate to the depth of tone desired. For example the throat h is specially designed for use with a cornet,trumpet, or the like high pitched instrument and said throat provides,in effect, a continuous passage, of approximately the same size throughthe mouth-piece. The throats gf and e are of relatively difierent andslightly increasing areas, the throat 9 being specially designed for usewith altos, the throat f for use with baritones and trombones, and thethroat e for use with bass instrument but, it should be kept in mind,that in thus adapting the mouth-piece for use with a plurality ofinstruments the same mouth cup at is used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a musical instrumentin combination a substantially cup shaped open-ended mouth piece, anapertured bottom part on said mouth piece, a separable tubular throatpiece, detachably secured to the apertured bottom part of said mouthpiece, an outer tube surrounding said throat piece and disconnectedtherefrom and detachably secured to the outer side of said mouth piece.

2. In a musical instrument in combination, a cup shaped mouth piece, anapertured bottom constituting part of said mouth piece, a substantiallytubular part surrounding said mouth piece and detachably' connected tothe outer wall thereof in spaced relation from its open end, a separableand exchangeable tubular throat piece at the inside of said firstmentioned tube and disconnected therefrom and substantially concentrictherewith, and removably connected to the apertured bottom of said mouthpiece.

3. In a musical instrument a cup shaped mouth piece, an apertured bottomconstituting part of said mouth piece, an exchangeable tubular throatpiece detachably secured to the aperture of said bottom part, an

open-ended, substantially cup shaped part surrounding the bottom partand detachably mounted at the outside thereof and disconl0 nected fromsaid throat piece and a tubular axial extension on said last mentionedcup shaped part.

FORTUNATO SORDILLO.

